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Ensnarl

Ensnarl \En*snarl"\, v. t. To entangle. [Obs.]
--Spenser.

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ensnarl

vb. To entangle; to trap.

WordNet
ensnarl

v. entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh [syn: enmesh, mesh]

Usage examples of "ensnarl".

He had been a misfit, thrown into a world he could only hate and which could only ensnarl him.

With the Poyolavomaar fleet close behind and in­fantry preparing to ensnarl the _Slanderscree's_ steering mechanism in green cable, the arrival of forces from Moulokin saved Balavere and Hunnar further argu­ment.

Ponkert's legs carried him above the ensnarling living whip time and time again.

The bare end of the wire had whipped backwards to ensnarl its frayed strands inside the upper end of the mooring-wire from which the sinker must be dangling two hundred metres below.

In her name all of Greece embarked upon a exhausting ten-year siege of Troy that ensnarled not only the Greeks and the Trojans, but the gods themselves.

But to see René', who had been so free with her -and she had loved his free ways-walking as though he were hobbled, like someone whose legs were ensnarled in the water and reeds of a pond whose surface seems calm but which, deeper down, swirls with subterranean currents, to see him thus, filled O with hate for Jacqueline.